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The paradox highlights that insanity is a rational response to an insane situation, and trying to escape it proves you are not insane. Modern life #catch22
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Keep working. Keep fighting. 💪🏾➕3️⃣🔴
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We only sign crazy Uruguayo players Long may it continue #LFC
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The Government is working against the best interests of the public. This Week; ▫️They're encouraging our newly graduated nurses to leave the country as the HSÉ recruitment ban kicks ▫️Providers of thousands of new homes have been quietly told by the Government to stop building more houses and apartments. These bodies largely provide housing for people who cannot afford to buy a home, but earn too much to get social housing supports. ▫️Vote to Abolish the Triple-lock despite widespread public support for it to remain. ▫️Former Garda Maurice McCabe - who was subjected to a smear campaign after he alleged widespread malpractice within the force - believes 'nothing has changed' when it comes to the State's treatment of gardai who come forward and disclose wrongdoing.
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Want to be ultra shocked, let me tell you about what the State and Garda have done to @OpenJusticeIE It is the most astounding case of state corruption I have ever seen and thats saying something. But it doesn't stop at corruption. Its a whole network of criminals in positions of power executing a vendetta against one person and the court's are complicit but wait for this...... despite multiple sittings, trials, and court dates not a single record of the person, the case, or the book of evidence exists in Pulse, the Courts Diary, or the Office of the State Solicitor or the DPP. When it breaks it will topple the government
#ResignHelen It's very very curious the Silence in Irish MSM about this outrage, but far worse the Deafening Silence from the opposition parties with the exception of @AontuIE This disgraceful Skulduggery would have brought a government down in the 70's, 80's & 90's
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BEN SCALLAN: "They know damn well that if they had a referendum on this, they would lose in a landslide. It would be like the hiding they got in the Family and Care referendums, but on steroids." Read more in the comments 👇
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Here are the 23 TD’s who have no vote recorded on the triple lock. This is not a done deal, there will be a further vote in the Dail before it goes to the senate, so we need to up the pressure on our TD’s if you haven’t done so already contact your TD and let them know what you think about them wanting to remove the triple lock!
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"A harmless man is not a good man. Goodness requires the capacity for violence, and the discipline to keep it sheathed."
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The Irish Government has confirmed that immigration NGOs are their strategic partners, with NGO funding reaching €11b in 2025.
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⚡️ Statement by the Embassy of Russia in Ireland (October 23, 2026) The much-publicised discussion in Ireland of the issues with the “Triple Lock” legislation and Irish neutrality includes continuing references to Russia made by the leaders of the Irish government, which contain unfounded allegations, as well as misrepresentation of the way the UN Peacekeeping mechanism works. In the course of the debate in the Dáil on October 21, Helen McEntee, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence, strongly objected to the current “Triple Lock” legislation on the grounds that it presumably allows Russia, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, “to have a say over which peacekeeping missions we can send our troops to”, or even to veto Irish participation in such missions, and that ostensibly does not sit well with the Minister who believes that Russia is “attacking European member-states, including Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland”. We strongly believe that any decisions on the matters of neutrality or any other policy matters are sovereign issues to be discussed and decided solely by the Irish government and the Irish people. At the same time, it is obvious that such decisions – whatever they are – should not be made under false assumptions, which is exactly the case with the Minister’s statements. Contrary to her assertions, the UN Security Council does not vote on what countries take part in a peacekeeping mission – its composition is agreed in the course of multilateral consultations conducted by the UN Secretariat and the interested UN member-countries. Also, there is no known record of Russia being against Ireland’s participation in any UN peacekeeping mission. Consequently, the allegations by Minister McEntee are reprehensible and misleading, grossly distorting the substance and the meaning of procedures provided by the UN Charter. ❗️In the same manner, the Minister’s speculations over Russia’s “attacks” on the EU countries are totally baseless, dangerously provocative and unacceptable. This kind of rhetoric is unthinkable for any responsible member of a government. It is regrettable that the Irish government has chosen to deliberately question the workings of the UN – despite its much-advertised commitment to the central role of the UN in the international order – with the aim to promote domestic policy agenda. It is also incumbent upon Irish leadership to realise that exercises in Russophobia cannot make up for a serious failure in its approach to relations with Russia and issues of peace and stability in Europe.
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I'm on a plane to Ireland tonight. Tomorrow a man goes on trial for a tweet. I'm writing this from the airport. In a few hours I'll be in the air, and tomorrow morning I'll be sitting in the public gallery of Bray District Court, south of Dublin, for the trial of Kirk Loco. You may remember Kirk. He's an ordinary Irishman. Two years ago someone in that group posted a warning: a migrant man had exposed himself on a public bus, in front of a 14-year-old girl. The bus driver stopped the bus. There were half a dozen witnesses. It was on CCTV. Kirk did what any of us would do. He reposted the warning so other parents would know. The migrant wasn't charged. Kirk was. The Irish police charged him under a so-called "fake news" law, Section 12A of the Criminal Justice Act, 1976. It was passed during the Troubles to fight terrorist propaganda. It had never been used against anyone, in fifty years, until they used it on Kirk. He is the first and only person in Irish history to be prosecuted under it. They picked him because of his politics: he's a critic of mass immigration. They are making an example of him. Here's what has happened since. Kirk has been dragged into that courtroom in Bray again and again, almost ten times, for a single retweet. Each time he takes a day off, each time his lawyers prepare, each time the Gardaí (that's what the Irish call their police) turn up and the thing gets put off again. I've flown over for one of those hearings myself. In May the judge lifted an outrageous bail condition that had banned Kirk from attending any protest, anywhere in Ireland. That was a real win. But the same judge refused to order the police to hand over the bus CCTV or the names of the witnesses. The people who saw what happened on that bus could clear him in five minutes, and the state won't tell his lawyers who they are. Kirk said it best himself: "I just can't believe that I'm eight court appearances in for a retweet." That was in May. There have been more since. The process is the punishment. Even if Kirk wins tomorrow, he's already been punished for two years: the stress, the lost days, the cloud over his name, the ban on protesting. That's the point. It's not really about convicting Kirk. It's about making sure every other Irish person who sees something on a bus thinks twice before saying a word. Tomorrow is finally the trial itself. A full day. Kirk's barrister, Laoise de Brún, and his solicitor, Padraig Langsch, will fight it in open court. They are principled lawyers who refused to do what Irish legal aid lawyers do, which is tell you to plead guilty, pay the fine and go home. Kirk won't plead guilty to telling the truth. And then I'm staying on. Because four days later, on Tuesday, the same two lawyers are back in court in Wexford, for Hugh Fagan. Hugh is the man I wrote to you about this week: he sits quietly on a bench in his town square with homemade signs, wearing headphones, and for that he's charged with a public order offence. Same country, same pattern, same week. One man for a tweet, one man for cardboard. I'm going alone this time, no videographer, economy flight, cheap hotel, to keep the costs down. I'll live-tweet from inside both courtrooms (I'll be the only journalist there; RTÉ never shows up) and I'll film my own reports outside on the courthouse steps and send them to you the same day. Ireland's "fake news" law had never been used on anyone until Kirk Loco. If they get a conviction, it becomes the template. That's why this one trial matters far beyond one man. Kirk's trial is Friday, October 23 in Bray. Hugh Fagan's is Tuesday, October 27 in Wexford. One trip, two trials. REPORT by @ezralevant:
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🐐 Jurgen Klopp asked at a kids' press conference: Best player you've coached? "I managed so many great players, I don't want to decide. Do you know Robert Lewandowski?" Yes! "Mo Salah?" Yes! "Sadio Mane?" Yes! "Bobby Firmino?" 🤐 "Then it's him!" 😂🇧🇷
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The granny consent ad is the ideal vehicle for @aontu and @independent_ire to drive for radical funding cuts to hyper-partisan, social justice theory-driven NGOs. The CUAN/DRCC advert is not a once off. It is symptomatic of radical institutional capture in NGOs and certain sections of public employment. Ireland is now an international laughing stock because of the granny consent adverts but the underlying theory that is behind this advert is being taught in schools and universities at the behest of the state and is seeping into all media via the state's funding of Coimisiún na Meán whose Mission Statement and funding provisions are grounded in social justice theory. Charlie Flanagan told the public in 2024 that these same radical NGOs have more influence on government policy than he did as a government backbencher. It's time too root it all out. Normal people do not want radical social justice theory rammed down their throats. The only reason it is happening is because the state keeps using taxpayer funds to do it.
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Did you know Ireland was the home of Werewolves? Our ones didnt need a full moon to transform and werent bloodthirsty beasts. They were from Ossory, a medieval Irish kingdom spanning modern Kilkenny and parts of Laois. The Werewolves of Ossory are among the oldest and strangest "lycanthropic" (man-wolf) traditions in the world. They werent monsters but cursed Christians, warrior-nobles, pilgrims, and penitents. Great bunch of lads. The earliest origin of the Ossory werewolves is a medieval text, Cóir Anmann, or The Fitness of Names. Here we encounter Laignech Fáelad, a shadowy powerful figure. Laignech was said to be the brother of Feradach mac Duach, an early king of the region. Unlike his royal sibling, Laignech possessed a more troubling habit. He “used to go wolfing”which according to the text meant he could transform into a wolf at will. The ability did not die with him. His descendants inherited the power, roaming the countryside in packs, raiding cattle and killing herds “after the fashion of wolves.” Another famous account comes from Gerald of Wales, writing in the late twelfth century in his Topographia Hibernica. By the way the aul TH is notorious for mixing genuine observation with barefaced English colonial contempt. Yet even Gerald seems unsettled by what he records. He recounts a story told to him by a priest travelling through Ossory in 1182. One night, deep in the woods, the priest encountered a wolf who spoke to him in fluent Gaelic. It begged him for help! The wolf explained that he and his mrs were human beings from Ossory, cursed generations earlier by a local holyman Saint Natalis. As punishment, every seven years a man and a woman were forced to leave human society and live as wolves. When their term ended, they could return, provided they survived, and another pair would take their place. Sadly his she-wolf wife lay dying and needed the Last Rites. The priest hesitated, so to convince him, the male wolf reached out with his paw and peeled back the wolf-skin from his wife’s head, revealing beneath it the face of an elderly woman so the priest administered the sacrament. There was also widespread belief held that when a person took on wolf form, in a type of astral travelling with their human body lying at home in a death-like trance.A wound suffered as a wolf would reappear on the human body once the seven years ended, cuts, broken bones, scars carried across forms like a grim accounting. Modern historians view this tradition preserving the memory of something older. Wolf-warrior cults were found across early Indo-European societies. In Ireland, young warriors often lived beyond the margins of settled society, wearing animal skins, adopting lupine hairstyles, and embracing ritual ferocity. Over time, metaphor hardened into myth.
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Yeah he had a bad heart but climate got him in the end So 2019
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I wish my nan had asked for my consent before she hugged and kissed me. I nearly swallowed her false teeth once.
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Govt has taken First Step to destroy Triple Lock -Next Step Govt will Deploy Irish Men & Women to Non-UN Mandated ‘Peace Enforcement’ Missions -To Lebanon to Disarm Hezbollah? -This will NOT be Blue Helmet ‘Peacekeeping’ -Our #Neutral Status? Gone Against will of the Irish People
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JUST IN: Ireland pulls the grandparent consent ad after government officials condemn it as “inappropriate & demeaning to grandparents.”
JUST IN: Irish government releases new ad urging grandparents to ask for consent before hugging their grandchildren.
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Replying to @OCallaghanJim
Jim O’Callaghan’s Justice Department in 2025 spent more on the NGO that produced this shite than it did on deporting foreign criminals. €4.1m vs €3.8m.
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